The country, live
Explore Israel, place by place
282 places, from the cities to the villages, the craters and the crusader castles. Every dot is a real place; the bigger the dot, the more news the newsroom has placed there, and gold diamonds are landmarks. Start typing a name and the search finishes it for you, zoom from the Hermon to the Red Sea, open the map full screen, and pick anywhere to see what is happening there, how far it is from Jerusalem, and the full guide when there is one.
Choose a place
282 places are on this map, 65 of them carrying recent news, with 243 stories between them. Search, tap a dot, or browse the country from the Hermon down:
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Upper Galilee16
Golan12
Western Galilee20
Lower Galilee13
Sea of Galilee7
Haifa and the bay7
Jezreel Valley7
Jordan Valley5
Carmel coast12
Sharon9
Tel Aviv and the centre34
West Bank28
Shfela12
Jerusalem and the hills10
southern coast12
Gaza Strip8
Dead Sea5
Negev24
Arava and Eilat10
Across the country31
Drawn, not licensed
The whole basemap is drawn from hand-checked coordinates: the coast, the Kinneret, both basins of the Dead Sea, the Jordan, Makhtesh Ramon, and Israel's borders, with the customary dashed lines around Gaza and the West Bank. No API keys, nothing tracked.
News with an address
A story lands on this map only when the report itself names the place. Nothing is guessed: an unplaced story simply is not here.
Towns, and what is between them
Beyond the cities: the Druze villages of the Carmel and the Galilee, the kibbutzim of the Gaza envelope, the Nabataean towns on the incense road, and the national parks. Each carries a checked line saying what it is.
Guides for the famous places
Jerusalem's Old City, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Masada, the Dead Sea and more each carry a full guide with sourced figures, timelines and visiting notes.
Prefer a list? All destination guides live under Places, and every story on the map is filed under News.